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iMMM xAifefr Ji i tfTKml WMMWfMvw vSaFff fca i JHftLt 1 IQ 1 a i IbPJ rVA wK ySWr KWtFTr al iHiJk ran wziaMiWh vt vwp filri ii flU i HBiilPlii Ut Tfli i iilhi i hi i llii ilW SA3T TOAC1BC HRONIOIiE STTlflDAYi APRIL 22 18J9 In Under the Bed Robs Stanley Weyman has dons his best work The romance has the dash ftnd brilliancy of A Gentleman of France with fewer characters and greater interest The plot centers about a balf dosen people the Scene is mainly In a remote corner of the Pyrenees near the Spanish border arid the hero is Oil deBeraolt gambler and professional duelist of Paris a man of food birth and breeding who has fallen low through his passTon for play The period is the time of Richelieu and the plot turns on the commission given by the wily Cardinal to the hero to deliver the body of the Bieur de Cocheforet who has plotted against Richelieu and who is supposed to be in Didinjr near his chateau hard by the Spanish line This commission Berautt accepts because it is the only alternative to escape the gallows since he has killed in a dael a mere boy whom he had first fleeced at ths gaining table The hero sets out on his mission with a full knowledge of its perils The Cardinal warns him that the whole country near Auch is devoted to Cocheforet and that it is sure death for any stranger to be taught spying around the place So novelist ever undertook a more difficult task than to arouse the readers sympathy and interest in De BeraulL This hard cynical mature gambler who has spent his time at Zatbns card rooms and who is known as the black death because of his fatal skill with the rapier this fellow who has lost caste by his association with blacklegs although his courage and skill as a swordsman preserve him from insult is a new type ot the hero essentially different from De MSrSac who has cnes respect from the A Gentleman of France His work as a spy clever as it is also does not commend him to the reader and it is only little by little that he wins ones sympathy by sheer force of his remarkable courage bis readiness of resource and his true gen tlemanliness when he first comes in contact with the wife and sister of the man he has engaged to betray It would be doing any reader of this book a very ill turn to even give an outline ot the adventures of De Berautt in the chateau While he is pursuing his nim with the dogged persistence of a man who knows that his life hangs on the success of his mission his better nature revolts at the treachery and espionage with which he is forced to repay the hospitality of these ladies Their discovery ot his double dealing the scathing denunciation which thd sister keeps upon him and the bitterness of it as she is the first pure and noble minded woman he has ever known these are told with the hand of a master Then follow with breathless speed the graphic picture of his proposed fight with the captain whom he insults the sudden turn of the wheel of fortnne by which he regains the sisters confidence only to lose it a second time by what seems the basest treachery the night hunt for Cocheforet and his capture by De Berault the terrible journey toward Paris rendered more bitter by the scorn ef the sister for whom he has begun to feel the stirrings of gennine love the attempt to rescue the prisoner and the noble tight that followed the heros final self sacrificesacrifice which wrings from the woman he loves a confession that she has misjudged him cruelly and the final scene with the stern Cardinal these are all pictures which are drawn with the dramatic skill of Scott and with far more than his literary art Only Robert Louis Stevenson amotag living writers of English can be placed in the same class with Weyman for narrative skill sustained interest of plot keen analysis of character and of motive picturesqueness of description and power variety and beauty of style Tats romance establishes the literary standing ot Mr Weyman It puts him among the foremost writers of historical romance for this story or My Lady Rotha which is now running serially In the Chhovicxe is well worthy of a place by the side of The Master ot Ballantre as a picture of a past age and a romance that has all the fire and color and movement of The Three Guardsmen His only rivals in his chosen field are Conan Doyle and Arthur Quiller Couch neither of whom seems to have Weymans self restraint in lopping oft all excrescences in his novels or his power of telling a thrilling story in so few words that even the condenser on a daily newspaper would have difficulty in put ting his blue pencil through any super nuous phrase It is a rare treat to get hold of a book ilk this and for several hours to lose oneself in Us vivid pictures of a life that is gone forever but which seems here as real as the world we know The book is illustrated with many spirited illustrations by Caton Woodville the artist who has made so great a reputation by his pictures of batfl scenes in the Soudan and in Matabelsland London Longmans Green fc Co Social Evolution Benjamin Kldds elaborate treatise on Social Evolution contains a methodical attempt to treat the whole question of inhuman progress and destiny from the point of view of the most recent scientific investigation Tbe result is a volume in teresting and suggestive but a trifle startling in some of its conclusions clear in reasoning ripe in knowledge atid beyond all things extremely bold and frank in statement Taking the modern biological law that com petition andLselection not only accompany progress but must of necessity prevail among all form of life that are not actually retrograding Mr Kidd concerns himself first of all to prove that the con jfifct that has been waged from the begln vnlng of life has not been suspended in the Vcase of man but has simply projected itself into the new era Man being sub Ject like all other forms of life to the physiological laws of development hia progress la only possible under the conditions of rivalry which have obtained from the origin of things in his case however two new factors are imported Into the evolutionary process hlireasoh and hli capacity for acting In Wncert with his fellow la Or ganised societies To Mr Kiddhowever these two Important additional factors reason and tho social instinct are In nee esiary antagonism the former giving rise to tndivriuat self assertivehess which the iatterhas more and more to hold In check 4 Following out the Una of this argument rVKiddSifter lengthychapUT npon ttodern sbcialisrn and its implications proceeds toabbw that human evolution is not primarily inUUectuaiybut relig ioiulncbaactef That we have actually iMrhced in mteliectuai terittallij he altogether declines to believe Since man became a social creature the development of his Intellectual character has become subordinate to the development of his religions character It would appear that the process at work in society is evolving religious character as a first product and intellectual cabacitv onlv so far as it can be associated with this qual ity in other words thfr most distinctive feature of human evolution at a whole la that through the operation of tbe law of natural selection the race must grow ever more and more religious The mere statement of this central thesis Ot the book is sufficient to show the ftesh ness and originality of Mr Kidds point 01 view The volume is a really important contribution to the subject of which it treats and even those readers who would decline to follow the author through the whole development of his argument will feel braced by contact with a bold mind and enlightened by the many wise and suggestive passages to be found in his pages New York Macmillan Co For sale by all booksellers price sz ouj Depewi Xlfe nd later Speeches The Life and Later Speeches of Chaun cey Depew contains a great deal of interesting matter for the addresses of this accomplished orator and after dinner speaker are usually thought out carefully although they are always delivered in the words that come to Depew when he is on his feet The life of Depew has been prepared by Joseph Gilder It gives a fair idea of the enormous working capacity of the president of the New York Central Railroad Company and it throws some outset In new on imPrtant political posi tiona which he has wisely declined to fill Depew began life as a lawyer in Peekskill and at an early age made considerable reputation as a politician It was just after he had declined to serve a second term as Secretary of State that old Commodore Vanderbilt asked him to enter the service of his company saying that there was nothing in politics hut that railroading was the great business of the future in this country The Commodores remark was true in Depews case for it is to his persistent refusal to accept public office tbat he owes his present responsible position and his wide reputation He declined tbe Japan mission from the hand of President Andrew Johnson as he refused the highest gift in the power of President HarriBon the position of 8eere tary of State Depews speeches cover a very wide range but the most valuable are those which deal with education and success in life These are full ot ripe wisdom and they deserve special commendation because they give encouragement to poor boys and girls who are ambitious to make their way Depew does not believe in luck but he is a firm believer in the power of brains work and persistent purpose to bring at least a measure of the success that anyone longs for The addresses on politics railroads the Worlds Fair and many other topics are all readable and most of them contain matter that is of permanent value Tbe Chief merit of Depews speeches is thatTie takes even well worn subjects and handles them ih fresh and suggestive way It is this faculty that makes the present volume one of the most readable books of the day New York The Cassell Publishing Company For sale by the Popular book store 10 Post street price 2 50 The Story of Oar Planet For one Who has an expert knowledge of a subject to write a popular book on his specialty is a difficult matter This has been demonstrated so often as to be almost a truism It seems well nigh impossible for the scholar to free himself from the technical part of his subject and thus conclusions which seem to him as clear as light can be reached only by the general reader by means of laborious study This is specially true of geology The manuals are hard reading and it is only occasionally that a man of the vivid imagination of Elisee Reclns is able to make popular the whole subject of geology Lyell Geikie Dawson Wallace Scheie de Yere and Shler have done good work in tbe same field as Reclus One of the best books in this department of science that has been published in many a day is The Story of Our Planet by Professor Bonney of University College London He has not that personal knowledge of the United 8tates which would give color to his American illustrations of many geologic 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is not hopeful Like many conservative men in Europe he fears the overthrow of civilization by the eruption of savages in its own circle the anarchists who will trample down all that has been gained by centuries of culture as ruthlessly as the Goths and Van dals ravaged the Roman empire However he finds the teachings of nature hopeful though not always bo for the individual or even for the race The book is illustrated with many fine cuts and six colored pi a tea New York Cassell Pub lishing Company For sale by The Popular Book Store 10 Post street Price In Maldn Meditation A woman philosopher who has some thing of the mild humor of Jerome IL Jerome and the pathos of Donald Mitchell has written what seems to be a record of her inmost life and thoughts and nut them Into a book called In Maiden Meditation The personal char acfer of It Is reason enough for the coa cealment of her identity behind the Initials VY A and reV man with the Ihardlhood to make public the secret places of his soul would not have repentea at the last moment and put on such a mask The book is full xf bright lines and somber ones the preface disarms criti cism upon the originality of the thought I or the expression of it for the writer avows at the outset her Indebtedness to the books 4n which she has dwelt Her reflections coyer all the range of a womans exMriences irevertlne constantly to te epic bf her sex the world old theme of love Much of what she has set down is morbid and much is overdrawn but there is a certain reality about it all which forbids harsh judgment as to the alce of the philosophy All through it there Is evidence of disappointment and ot longings hopeless of satisfaction with a tinge of cynicism and bitterness which reveal more pernaps than was intended The world Is not generally speaking much interested in the joys or sorrows of any4 individual man or woman bat this autobiography of tho heart is so candid and sincere and has in it so many reflections of moods common to us all 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narration that could have been selected One cannot help thinking that the constancy of the lovers must have been of a superior sort to endure the difficulties and delays of the transcontinental mails of forty years ago I Tbe story itself is trivial a fault not to be uigguiseu oy me louy pni4oopnizing which the letters are full Boston The Arena Publishing Company price paper 50 cents The Bedouin Girl by Mrs 8 Higginson is the romance of a desert waif who grew to be a beautiful womam and whose destiny was closely linked with that of the young Turk who saved her from the wild riders of interior Arabia As a lovu story it is pure and pathetic but it is for the faithful pictures presented of Arabian scenes and customs that the book is to be valued most New York Selwin Tait Sons price 1 25 The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope is a striking illustration of the power of pure romance The story is not only improbable to a degree but actually impossible and yet the authors grace and ease of 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letter by Robert Southey recently sold in London there appears an extraordinary piece of conceit He compares therein his own dull poem Madoe with Scotts Lay of the Last Minstrel and actually adds this peacock sentence But my acorrrwill continue to grow when his Turkey bean shall have withered A granite monolith in the form of an lona cross is to be erected to the memory of Tennyson on the highest Crest of the Down overlooking the western end of the Isle of Wight It is to be known as the Tennyson Beacon and will be a land and sea mark in view of every ship that passes in and out ot the Needles or under the island 1 Wfc Researches 3Iiv andiMrs Lemmon Eight Months JErery Year Spent la Exploring Virgin Country A Pretty Pocket Shakespeare The Tempest forms the first volume of the new Temple pocket edition of Shake ul to its editors The Literary Digut is becoming a valuable record of political and social comment by the leading newspapers of the world Under Topics of the Time many of the foremost problems are dis cussed For instance the number for April 13th touches on the South Carolina trouble the tariff Gladstones retirement and other topics Bellamy in his article on how he wrote Looking Backward has a very telling argument for purpose novels Bays he You may make a sermon or an essay or a philosophical treatise as illogical as yon please and no one know the difference But all the world is a good critic of a story for it has to conform to tbe laws of ordinary probability and commonly observed sequence of which we are all judges A great Grant number apropos ot General Grants birthday is announced by the editors ot MeClurei Matjaiint for May With an unoqualed series of portraits of Grant covering the whole term of his manhood from his cadetshipat West Point to his closing davs at Mount McGregor will be presented a series of studies and reminiscences from his son Colonel Frederick Grant and his friends and fellow soldiers Generals Horace Porter Howard and Eli Parker Mr Gladstone has placed in an iron building at Hawarden a library of more than 20000 volumes which he names St Deiniols Theological and General Library and intends for the use of students lay and clerical of any age of inquirers and of clergy or others desiring tiroes of rest but not for visitors from curiosity Attached to the library is a hotel built for the purpose of harboring the students at a moderate charge for board and lodging This is quite an ideal foundation Besides Mr Gladstone has given to the villagers a considerable general library at the Hawarden Institute It is argued writes an English critic bv one section of realists fftUelv A called and coaisting of critics and imitators rather than of any great novelists that the supreme duty of the anthor Is simply to set before us the facts the realities of life and leave hs to shape oar own ideals and draw our own conclusions from them Exactly so Bat to do this we must have all the facts bad and good together Give us unpleasant truths by alt means but ShOy us also where lies the good which shall overcome the eviL Courage love endurance pity faithfulness generosity are not these things as real as hatred meanness flippancy cowardice despair The new edition of Poes works now in course of preparation by Edmund Sted man and Professor George Woodberry will no doubt be a definitive one It is tbe more welcome that it is late in cOmincr and all true lovers of letters will be grate cieuman is to nave Whenlt cornea toWTltingiaboutthe Ufa and work of such a pair 61 married scientists as live over In Oakland pnre frets the triteness of the linein Ingo mar about tiro souls with but a single thought If ever there were two people whom the overworked quotation fitted to perfection these are the ones John Gill Lemmon and hia wife form this unusual couple Their one absorbing thought is botanical research They have lived their lives so quietly and pursued their investigations so modestly and un obtrusively that few of their 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born at Lima Mich in 1832 Not even the average common school education fell to his lot He served through the war In the ranks and was a prisoner at Andersonville and Florence It was his shattered constitution that led him to come to California in 18GG Here an eartv oassion for botany was revived and soon he touna that rate naa cut out his life work for him For years he has been a patient and persistent prospector in the unexplored regions of the Pacific Coast sacking not mineral deposits hut the new rare and curious in the plant life of bills and valleys At 60 odd his en ergy is unaimimshea tor tne veteran botanist still spends eight months of every year in the field Since his marriage he has had a constant companion and coworker in bis wife Mrs Lemmon whose maiden name was Sara Allen rlnmmer is a New xorker She had a pronounced liking for the sciences but circumstances made her a teacher instead of a student while yet a mereflirL During the war she interested herself in hospital and sanitary commis sion work studying meanwhile in her favorite fields and attending a scientific cshpoi at night The first illness ot her busy life was contracted in Bellevue Hospital After that her health never returned in Its former superabundance She spent the next winter in Florida and then came to California in search of health She set tied in Santa Barbara That was oyer twenty years ago She at once interested herself in tbe flora ot Santa Barbara and in all the beautiful marine plants which abound on the beach there Through her a club of six ladles was fordied for the study of marine algae and Miss Plummet wrote a little book to assist them in preparing and classifying their specimens which monograph still remains OxClasslc of students On one of his tripe Mr Lemmon visited Banta Barbara and the two scientists the professional and the amateur met Their wedding journey was unique It was not a trip that would be desired by every couple no matter how much engrossed with each other They penetrated the heart of the Santa Catalina Mountains of New Mexico where few white men care to go ahd where the cllnbing is inexpressibly steep and difficult There this romantic and scientific pair chose to i vol tlterary Kottt North Country Tales and Ballads is the title of Robert Buchanans new book it is a collection ot prose and poetry Kossuths Memories of My Exile is brought out in a new edition by Apple ton Coi This interesting volume gives the patriots own story of his lite Outdoor sports for women are treated by English experts In a breezy book entitled Ladies in the Field to be published shortly by Appleton Co Beatrice Harraden is said to have been the daughter ot a bookseller in Bombay the prototype of the old bookseller in her famous Ships That Pass jn the Night The popularity of novels is probably nowhere so great as In Australia It is said that do per cent of the female and 75 pr cent oi the mate frequenters of the public libraries read novels almost exclusively Gladstone is finding solace tinder bis sorrow nf fading sight in translating Into English verse the odes of Horace He is ao familiar with the original that this amusement gives little work to the eye In a letter written byQeorge Eliot and Published for the first time in Poet ore she apblogiiet for neglecting her correspondent and add tali sentence Gravi work bh botany there is a highly torflpllmentary notice of MrsiLemrronj wortY xat autnor says war ane as shared with ier husband the trials pn tinha and dans era Of srdnous explorations in the wilds of Arizona and CaiifernljL Thrworfcuol the Leramons is pjr no means confined to California They devote themselves to the flora and trees Of Werfernyorth Amerieii add theit field is bounded by the Kooky mountains on the ail and Alaska and Mexico on the north and south Mft Lemmon is the acknowledged authority on the flora of this part Or tUB country LOSi season was peaiiu British Columbia but the preyrous eight seasons have been pissed In Arizona The botnnirii fMrm i from March to Octo ber and this Ii spent afield thi wmein mg jour montns oi tne year iubv untw homiC preserving classifying and putting thejresultstof their work into shapa Thev season In the field includes the tlmerhen the tiny plants pttsh their heads into the light unUt seed time is over and th ceaseless round nature Is ready to gin again Some idea may be formed of the importance of these annual journeys front the factthatinone trip alone forty two new species were discovered iri on range Of Arizona the Huachuca mountains in the southern part of the Territory Botanists hiaver been deterred from going there by the steep xnggea rocas ana in fierce heatprthe Arizona summer BesidesBesides it was not lon agbthat this jras the stamping ground of the lApachev tfha cared more about anatomy than botany It remained for Mr and Mrs Lemmon bravethese dangers and many discoveries were their reward On their mountain trips the potanuts are dressed for this hartfest of trampttif Mrs Lemmon wears a complete iroun taineering sttlt of short divided skirts made after the fashion of Turkish txous ers and of the stoutestof stuff A blous waist hob nailed shoes and long leather gaiters complete this e6stume A SUir hat gives a partial protection iroirtth blistering rays of the sun and nnderj th hat the soft curly grayair is woro ia simple knot Mrs Lemmons complexion Is somewhat tanned but remarkablyvwhite wherioneeonsiders that but oneHbfrd of the year is spent with a roorovefchef head The rest of the time shevisronght tag it When the twain leave theiramp to climb nntroddea heighUreveryunca counts Each carries a short Alpine staff ahd one of them carries Stripped on the back a large tirt bottoftvedmitii rU if also necessary to carfy notebrje ki ana sometimes a blanketlt they Intend to remain away overnight for it grows cold rapidly on thbsegreat height after un set On these occasion therioodrioK the day is carried ha large pot with uhandl and leathern stran InAihl8Cari IS gallon of rather thick cocoa with crackers stirred in it which answers fot looii tad drink durinj therdayV jiWaUftisput ot thequestion On one occasonthe Lemmpns naa quite ah interesting experlencewithi Apaches The redswere on theft warpaihV Arid the twin scientists werewarned iy tb commandant of ft near by fort not to go be yond ougie caii or tneiorLrrQiessor ana Mrs Lemmon endured this enforced inactivity for four days and theny asiioth Ing had been seen of the Indians they ventured ont Before they had gone a mile they encountered three Apachesbnt as they madeno hostile demonstration the botanists proceeded At lasttthey reached their objective poiut andsMrai Lemmon sat down Tinder a tree and took out her water colors preparatory tbpaint ing a flower She had found Her husband climbed on and out of Sight A shadow fell Across the paper and withdrawing her gaze from her subject Mrs Lemmon saw that she had company four Indian bncks Sheynad not beard their noiseless approach One of thera had on his naked shoulder the skinned carcass of a deer he had just killed The dripping blood from this creature did sot add to the mildness of the visitors appearance The artistwas badly fiight ened but she made abf a Ve show f6f resuming her work and appearing unconcerned The Indians drew nearer and looked over her shoulder She appeared annoyed and anxious to work and constantly said Vamoose The Indians remained It seemed an age until her husbands welcome Hallo came tinging down the canyon and the Indians snppoaing there was more than one departed as noiselessly si theyhad come Mrs Lemmon still preserves the water color of tie golden columbine which bears strong internal evidence of agitation hot so much as a wdrk of art but as a souvenir of exciting adventure The home of the Lemmons In Oakland is an artistic place The herbarium Is here and also Mr Lemmons study ind his wifes studio Around the rooms is a frieze ot pine cones and below it ft border of Indian srelics beautiful woven baskets and weapons Of all kinds On all her trips Mrs Lemmon carries her bor of water Tcolors with whidh she transfers to paper the rare and interesting plants they discover Among these paintings done on the spot by Mrs Lemmon is one of the rare desert Uly which blooms scantily in the Arizona wastes Daring one of their trips they caue across this beautiful flower which ISrouly on record as having been seen twice before When Mrs Lemmon does not paint too specimensv Zher husband photographs them He haa ari excellent camera and has hundreds of splendid negatives of the pines and firs of the Pacific Elope Many of these picturesare exquisitely taken and show the detail to perfection Not longagoMr Lemmon published a little manuscript on the Cone Bearing Trees of the Pacific Slooe He has in preparation a more pretentious and com plete won on tne same important tamiiy of trees as found in WeslernAmerica ev Lane Poole andrv Dickins iNew York Macmillaa Co William DOxey Price 8 Total Ecllcses of the Son By Mabel Loomls Todd Bottoa Roberta Brothers The Baa croft Company PrlcaPl1 an tor America By vtiuiam urawav Part ridge Boston Roberts Brothers TheBan croft Company Price 8L By Moorland and Sea Br Francis A Knight iwnion iuoem eromera line uancroit Company Priee 1 50 Under the Red Kobe By Stanley Weyman New York Longmans Green Co Tbe Rubicon By EK Benson NewYorkt Appi ton uo race paper so cents Total Eclitises ot the Sun BV Mabel Loom Todd Boston EoberuBrethers fC Beaeh PrlceSL By Moorland and Set By Francis A Knight Boston Roberts Brothers 10 Beach Price 1501 --Stand 7att Craig RoylitOn By William Black Sew York lHrper Brothers Payot Upbam Co Price 80 cents The Expert Waitress By Anne Francis Sprinestead Sew York Harper 4 Brothers fPayel Upham 4 Co Price ft Orations and Addresses By George William Curtis Velume HI New York Harper Brothers Payot Upoara Co Price 3 601 Weepnesol Japan By Me St John Bram haU New York Harper Brothers payot Upham Co Price 11 German for Americans By Dr Jacob Mayer Phlladelnhlat JKohfer -The Statesmanf Year BOok1894 Edited by ocuu Acme xcw loru Macnuuaa a IX Wlliam Doiev1 -Marcella By Mrs Humphry Ward tn two volumes New Yorkt Macmillan Co WilltamDoxey Jrice2J Overheard in Arcadyj By Egbert Bridges itbs tinuoy pass their honeymoon caraping out for over four months It was Mrs Lemmons first expedition away from civilization butshe liked what aless enthusiastic botanist might have considered sufficient cause for divorce Theyexperienced ex traordlnary privations and toil but succeeded in reaching the highest peak ot the range at last and made a number of interesting and important discoveries Of his many discover Mr inmm regards that ot a new kind ot indigenous nouto in Arizona as the most important It is the height of every botanisVS ambition to have not a species but a genus of plants named after hmahd thrs idhor has come to both Pjofessor and Mrs Letrr morwj In 1878 ah important genus was nameu attar the illiainnr Mr lnnin by pr Asa Gfayi the acknowledged American Bumon on ootany ifjver years later ft genuspf plants discovered by Mrs Lemmon was named after her ri imv New Yorkt Charles BcribnMons Price This genus is found ia thewilds Of AtU 12 I itonaAUd is called plummera ItfDr i ne dook is to oe Pom sCieutlne and popular in alternate paragraphs and It is the dream of the Professors life to publish it Unfortunately it will be an expensive work and scientific books do not sell like new novels ao the book will be long in appearing on account of tnelaek of the necessary fupds For four years Professor and Mrs Lemmon were In the employ of the State Hoard bLPorestry The reports that theypablished were amongthe most valuable secured by the BoaTCV TheLemmonshavebeehptomiheht In Ythr worlr risSda thatr nbrratntno iA IbotaflyVs The latter Is their major work oujnoi ineirniyimerest wr liemmon hasSwritten much jbnotheT arid widely diversified auhiectAndatthe lime nf th 1 New Brieans Exposition hVand hii wife haacharge or the FacincKtatcs exhibit wajcu receirett aveprues Jurs lemmon is a member of the nations committee which is engaged in Selecting a floral emblem and on thornthrof May 3d she will addressthe Womans Congress at the Midwinter FaircjhtheBubiect of botany At the Worlds FairihVdellvered an address Jra Women liiScienceJ Itis a busylife these people lead and yetthevarelboth stndehtrihtths4 trnest 8enselfrLemm6nscotihselisc6n3tantly songhty aisanguishedvscieriflslai The head of the bbtanlcaJj derartmhtt Berkeley 1s his close friena and nvanybtMfV Lemmons articles have appeared la Piftonia a ScientiSc magazine published byvProfessoTJGreen In appearance these two people are decidedly interesting Mr Lemmon itall andthin with blue yes and brown hair without strcat of gray He doea not look bis age but his manner is nervous and quick as though all time was not long enough ta accomplish the iaik before hlm Mrs Lemmon is of jme diumf height with expressive dsifk eves and aTMAfrln MnnttnttitM Iwhich changes with every phrase Her ton nairisvery pretty ana ner voice singularly musical She has delicate white hands artUts bands which look too delicate tor the life she leads Intheirbome which Is so characteristic of their Ideals and aspiration vJhls model pair reside and in their life there is aeon tanti succession of research discovery and attainments They are very un worldly and likeall true scholars poor for the real scholar has no timextb earn meredoUara TtotOekland branch officl of the Ckaojrrttk hsa been removed 10 oca Bfaidtva I advertisements and aatncrintlnni ni 1 ceived and th Stoddard and yforW fir yvi wviMMiuuiiuwu irWifei fei sSitiiit zifrSfMmz.